Pet/livestock monitoring

[Gman]

Then there is ring (Amazon owned) automatically signs you up for 1984, with partnerships with 600 law enforcement agencies, Ring will let them know what you have on your behalf, on top of them developing their facial recognition using your doorbell for god-knows-what purpose that will certainly be misused in the future.

That's total tin-foil horse shit. Law enforcement is signing up for the Neighborhood app. Anyone that shares their video, particularly suspicious persons (attempts at opening doors, auto break-ins, porch pirates) on the app is what they have access to, not your cameras. They probably don't care about the lost pets, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote, and snake videos.

https://shop.ring.com/pages/neighbors

Exposing your computer to the Internet is a whole other attack surface with numerous security issues. Cheap IP cameras also have security risks.

[buffalobo]

Get a power-over-ethernet switch (without wireless) and POE cameras. Don't hook any of that up to the internet. Run normal network cable from the cameras to the router. The cameras don't need separate power.

Then physically plug a computer into that switch. Install Blue Iris on the computer ($40 or less). Install a second network card into the computer, or use wireless on the computer to connect it to the internet. [That results in two separate networks - one for the cameras using a POE Switch, one your computer connects to via wireless to your normal router) Setup Blue Iris on your phone.

Any other solution guarantees your shit will most likely get hacked or become a botnet. (Chinese companies are obligated to participate in their equivalent of the CIA, they generally install hardware compromises). The above doesn't give the cameras any access to the internet at all, but still gives you remote control of the cameras (through US software, Blue Iris)

Then there is ring (Amazon owned) automatically signs you up for 1984, with partnerships with 600 law enforcement agencies, Ring will let them know what you have on your behalf, on top of them developing their facial recognition using your doorbell for god-knows-what purpose that will certainly be misused in the future.

This is what we had in mind. Will read up on it.

Everybody please continue suggestions and debate.

[theGinsue]

This is what we had in mind. Will read up on it.

Everybody please continue suggestions and debate.

All reading this thread: Be advised, the debate needs to be respectful of all parties; i.e. those posting and especially the OP. I'm tired of threads turning into drama lately. Please show some civility in this and all other threads or we'll show it for you.